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NRC wants input on Hermes 2 test reactor construction permit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking input on its draft environmental assessment and draft finding of no significant impact for Kairos Power’s application to build the Hermes 2 test reactor facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
H.M. Attaya, G.A. Emmert, J.F. Santarius, G.L. Kulcinski
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 367-372
Power Reactor and Next-Generation Studies | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A40072
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A summary of a recent design effort for a high wall loading, low power, compact tokamak reactor is presented. The design employs a bean-shaped plasma to reach the second stability regime, where high beta values are attainable. A point design was chosen based on a parameteric survey that was conducted using the Tokamak Systems Code (TSC). The most important parts of that survey are presented here. Investigation of different plasma confinement scaling laws shows that the chosen point design has a reasonable ignition margin.